On 04/10/2018 06:37 PM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> syzbot reported a possible deadlock in perf_event_detach_bpf_prog.
> The error details:
> ======================================================
> WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> 4.16.0-rc7+ #3 Not tainted
> ------------------------------------------------------
> syz-executor7/24531 is trying to acquire lock:
> (bpf_event_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<000000008a849b07>]
> perf_event_detach_bpf_prog+0x92/0x3d0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:854
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: [<0000000038768f87>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x198/0x280
> mm/util.c:353
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
>
> the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
>
[...]
>
> The bug is introduced by Commit f371b304f12e ("bpf/tracing: allow
> user space to query prog array on the same tp") where copy_to_user,
> which requires mm->mmap_sem, is called inside bpf_event_mutex lock.
> At the same time, during perf_event file descriptor close,
> mm->mmap_sem is held first and then subsequent
> perf_event_detach_bpf_prog needs bpf_event_mutex lock.
> Such a senario caused a deadlock.
>
> As suggested by Daniel, moving copy_to_user out of the
> bpf_event_mutex lock should fix the problem.
>
> Fixes: f371b304f12e ("bpf/tracing: allow user space to query prog array on
> the same tp")
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
Applied to bpf tree, thanks Yonghong!
